Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria [With CD]

by Hagedorn, Katherine J.
ISBN: 9781560989479
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In Divine Utterances, Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santer a and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state-sponsored Conjunto Folkl rico Nacional de Cuba, and examines the complex relationships involving race, politics, and religion in Cuba. The music that Hagedorn describes is rooted in Afro-Cuban religious tradition and today pervades a secular performances that can produce a trance in audience members in the same way as a traditional religious ceremony.

Hagedorn's analysis is deeply informed by her experiences in Cuba as a woman, scholar, and apprentice bat drummer. She argues that constructions of race and gender, the politics of pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, the economics of tourism, and contemporary practices within Santer a have contributed to a blurring of boundaries betwen the sacred and the folkloric. As both modes now vie for primacy in Cuba's burgeoning tourist trade, what had once been the music of a marginalized group is now a cultural expression of national pride.

The compact disc that accompanies the book includes examples of twenty songs to the orichas, or Afro-Cuban deities, performed by prominent musicians, including L zaro Ros, Francisco Aguabella, Alberto Villarreal, and Zenaida Armenteros.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Hagedorn, Katherine J.
  • ISBN: 9781560989479
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.88 x 0.72
  • Number Of Pages: 296
  • Publication Year: 2001
Language: English

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